Recs if you like The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts...

Nonfiction about the history, development, and impact of books, literature, storytelling, knowledge, reading, archives, information, and related subjects. Always open to suggestions!

Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!

Niche nonfiction books that dads are still likely to enjoy that either 1) are not military history at all or 2) a niche area of a war that is not military history

Does what it says on the tin (or the back of the book?). This list is specifically about the people who make libraries work as well as libraries as a concept, but not books that only use the library as a setting for a novel (there are other amazing lists that already do that!).

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” — George Bernard Shaw

Nonfiction about book banning, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Bans off our books!!!

Looking for fiction? Check out my list I ❤️ My Right to Read!

Libraries house stories, in both human and book form that are just waiting to be told. This list highlights exactly the potential the past and book filled spaces can hide.

Nonfiction featuring stories, mysteries and histories of librarians, archivists, booksellers, and antiquarian booksellers.

Books about Librarians and Booksellers, real and fictional.

✨️For Sal ✨️

Books set in Africa or written by African authors.

(WIP) I'm a Roman historian and I wanted to make a list of books that I learned a lot from and that non-historians can enjoy :) (nb: some might be textbooks but they are textbooks I have found to be accessible)